As part of Hybrid Reels, Zawya’s first film program dedicated to the genre of non-fiction, we are pleased to invite you to the screening of Leviathan Directed by: Lucein Castaing- Taylor and Verena Paravel

The film will be followed by a talk titled “The Right to Look” by professor Kiven Strohm, visual anthropologist at the American University in Cairo.
 

Leviathan

Verena Paravel and Lucien Castaing Taylor are artists and anthropologists affiliated with Harvard’s Sensory Ethnography Lab, an interdisciplinary center for the making of anthropologically informed media works that combine aesthetics and ethnography.
Leviathan, is an experimental work about the North American Fishing industry; in the very waters where Melville’s Pequod gave chase to Moby Dick, Leviathan captures the collaborative clash of man, nature, and machine. Shot on a dozen cameras — tossed and tethered, passed from fisherman to filmmaker — it is a cosmic portrait of one of mankind’s oldest endeavors.
The Right to Look
Ethnographic films often tell us what to see and what to hear. Leviathan, bereft of such an expository agenda, demands the spectator to make sense of the passing of images. It is, in other words, an invitation to look. 

Kiven Strohm obtained his PhD in anthropology (with excellence) from the Université de Montréal (2013) and an MA in philosophy and cultural analysis from the University of Amsterdam. His teaching and research interests include the anthropology of the visual, comprising visual art and experimental film, the relation of aesthetics and politics, anthropology as/of politics, and colonialism and practices of decolonization. 

Part of Hybrid Reels: Revisiting the documentary
The workshop, talks, and discussions program is organized in partnership between Zawya Cinema, ROOM Art space, Dance studio & Cafe and Seen Films as part of its initiative for Open Exchange and Collaboration in Film Tools and Content. This program is supported by International Media Support, the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture, and the Arab Digital Expression Foundation